To make our first full stack, 2-week, group project from scratch; a Facebook clone called ♠cebook!

• This was full stack, and none of our team had ever used Rails before so getting up to speed with that framework took a fair amount of time.
• The main objectives of this project were less product and more process. So CI/CD, Agile and TDD were at the front of our minds, to varying degrees of success...

Back-end >> Rails
Front-end >> Javascript, Jquery, HTML, CSS
Testing >> Rspec, CapyBara, Selenium-Webdriver, Rubocop, Simplecov
CI >> Travis CI
CD >> Heroku

The card wall with our to do list is here: Trello board

First, clone this repository. Move into it on the command line, then:

> bundle install
> bin/rails db:create
> bin/rails db:migrate

To run the tests:

> bundle exec rspec # Run the tests to ensure it works

To start the server:

rails s

Then visit localhost:3000.

• Getting the hang of Rails definitely took up a lot of headspace. Most of us had only used Sinatra before, so having less visibility on routing was a little tricky, and generally the structre was quite overwhelming at first. But we feel more on top of it now.
• We ended up TDDing very little, mostly we think because we were learning a new technology, so the exploration/implementation phases were very muddled. -This meant that our CI was more reactive rather than proactive. Getting our heads around Travis too a while. But eventually we got it up and running.
• Downstream again with CD we ran into the same problems. Just remembering to follow all the processes was quite a challenge.
• Our version control and git discpline was a little slack. Much too much work directly onto the master branch, and there's plenty of orphaned branches lost into the ether.

• Our team worked together really well! We had regular stand-ups every morning, follow by a quick planning and allocation. We constantly communicated throughout, and had useful retros/merge parties at the end of the day.
• We all feel a lot more confident with Rails.
• We're all pretty pleased with the Front-End/aesthetics! Turned out pretty well. We were tempted to turn to a more sophistocated framework like React, but we're glad we didn't in the end as we had plenty on our plates already.

A selection of whitboard action shots after our retros/stand-ups...

• None of us will probably revisit this project but if we did... There are plenty more features we'd like to add.
• Acebook is sorely lacking a like button, plus a many to many friends feature.